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Michael Kuttner
Repeats, reruns and recycled
History repeats itself in almost every generation. The same endless assertions and accusations are rerun and recycled by politicians and media alike.
One would have...
What’s in it for us?
Anyone who has shopped at or toured around the famous Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, commonly known as the “shuk”, will recall the cacophony...
Beware of the small print
Most of us know that it is the small print which very often determines the real meaning and intent of any document or political...
Intolerable insanity
If your country was bombarded by over seven hundred missiles would you expect universal world condemnation or calls for restraint and diplomacy?
Once again like...
Pain and joy – tragedy and triumph
Like so many times in our people’s long journey, from a small family in pagan surroundings through exile and slavery to liberation and the...
Fact or Fiction?
Who would have thought that a mere seventy-four years after the Holocaust, large numbers of people in many countries would either be ignorant of...
Deal of the century
As Jews worldwide gather to commemorate their ancestors’ deliverance from bondage it is only appropriate that we contemplate exactly what it is we are...
Judgment Day – Yom Ha’din
From the High Holyday liturgy: “who shall be exalted and who shall be brought low.”
Round number one in the battle of the BB’s (Benny v...
Lucky dip on election day
When we were growing up in Wellington many years ago (a bygone era – never to return) the highlight of the Jewish community’s social...
Al Chet – for the sins we may have committed
Although as individuals it is unlikely we have transgressed every one of them we nevertheless accept collective responsibility for the possibility that as a...
